Daily Hansan
58th Year, No.113
Wednesday, March 29,1961
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
ASC Establishes Secretarial Staff
The All Student Council, in a regular meeting in the Kansas Union last night, passed a bill to establish a secretarial staff.
"The secretarial staff is being set up in an effort to better communication between ASC and the student body." Harley Russell, Topeka senior and vice chairman of the ASC. said.
The bill constituted the last legislation the present council will handle. The new ASC members, elected in this week's general election, will be sworn in at the first meeting after Spring vacation. The representatives from living groups will remain on the council, however.
"The secretary will appoint her staff and they will be delegated the duties of the secretary," he explained. "They will also be responsible for posting ASC minutes on bulletin boards around the campus and mailing them to interested people."
THE MINUTES WILL be sent to organized houses, the Lawrence Journal-World, the UDK, Gov. John Anderson and anyone who wants them. Russell said.
The secretarial staff will also be
responsible for the revision of the ASC Constitution every three years and the publication of a supplement every year.
Aslam Faridi, Karachi, Pakistan, graduate student, asked ASC to provide more foreign newspapers to be placed in Watson Library.
"Foreign students here know little of what is going on in their own country," he said. "The papers cost very little, and several could be provided for only $15 a month. Since foreign students are neither Republican or Democrat, we are ignored in the papers."
Lynn Anderson, Atwood senior and chairman of ASC, reported a change in this year's Varsity-Alumni football game.
Faridi was asked to submit a list of suggested papers to ASC and funds would be made available for the papers.
Anderson said the game had been held at night at the Haskell Stadium and there had been conflicts with various campus activities.
"THE GAME WILL be at 1:30 Saturday afternoon, May 13, in Memorial Stadium," he said. "Student ID cards are being considered for admittance, although in past years the tickets have cost $1.50."
Lawrence Barber Lifts Restrictions on Negroes
One Lawrence barber who previously refused service to Negro customers has agreed to open his shop to all persons, the Civil Rights Council's Committee on Barber Shops reported last night.
John McCabe, Lawrence senior and a member of the committee, said the Committee would release the name of the shop to all members of the Council and to students who would be willing to patronize the shop.
"But we'd rather not mention the shop publicly, yet," he said.
"We are interested in the barber's problems as well as in integration."
McCABE SAID another local barber has agreed to open his shop to Negroes if other shops in Lawrence will agree to do the same.
Members of the Barbershop Committee said they would visit with other Lawrence barbers to discuss integration before the Council's next meeting April 12. To date, 17 barber shops have been surveyed to determine whether they would serve Negroes.
Stephen Baratz, Lawrence graduate student and chairman of the CRC. said he was "quite satisfied with the Committee's results.
"The cooperation we have had from the barbers thus far seems to indicate that the problem may be solved by discussion," he commented. "And that is the method of solution we certainly hope for."
BARATZ AND THREE other CRC members will meet with members of the Kansas State and Washburn Universities civil rights groups tonight at Washburn to discuss the organization of a regional council to work for civil rights.
Three Seniors Get Fulbright Grants
Fulbright foreign study grants have been awarded to three KU seniors for study during the 1961-62 academic year. The grants cover round-trip transportation, orientation, tuition, books, and maintenance.
J. A. Burzle, professor of German and Fulbright program adviser, said other seniors and graduate students probably would receive 1961-62 grants later.
David Eugene Crawford, Prescott,
will study musicology at the Academy
of Music, also in Vienna. He
will be graduated from KU with an
A.B. in music.
Astrida Ruta Blukis, Prairie Village, who will receive an A.B. degree in German and anthropology this June, will study anthropology at the University of Vienna.
John Albert Rupf, Jr., Wichita will continue his studies in electrical engineering field at Imperial College, the University of London.
Approximately 900 scholarships for study abroad next year are being awarded under the international educational exchange program of the Department of State. The students are selected by the Board of Foreign Scholarships, whose members are appointed by the President of the United States.
US, SEATO Warn Russia Over Laos
BANGKOK, Thailand — (UPI) — The United States and its SEATO allies warned the Communists today not to try to take over Laos by force. But the allies did not specify what steps they would take to prevent a Red take over if their warning is ignored.
An eight-point statement issued in a communique at the end of the three-day seventh annual meeting of the SEATO Council was an apparent compromise. It voiced "grave concern" over Communist attempts to take over Southeast Asia in "flagrant disregard of the Geneva accords of 1954." But it stopped short of openly threatening to use force if the Soviet Union rejects a British note asking an immediate cease-fire in Laos.
COMMENT BY THE foreign ministers after the conference was optimistic for public consumption. But failure to include any indication of a hard military line underscored reported differences among the delegates.
The United States, backed by Thailand and the Philippines, wanted
Poll Activity Declines On Final Voting Day
Cloudy and cold today and tonight. Thursday partly cloudy and not so cold. Highs today middle 40s. Lows tonight middle to lower 30s. Highs Thursday lower 50s.
Weather
Harper said a tally of results will begin about 5:30 this afternoon but the results will not be known until about .9 p.m.
Richard Harper, Prairie Village junior and ASC elections commissioner, said today that voting in the campus election this morning was somewhat lighter than the voting yesterday morning.
Voting yesterday was about average in comparison with voting in recent years. Yesterday's 1,408 votes were slightly above the total for the first day of voting last semester. The final tally last semester was 2.824.
Haprer said the election had gone smoothly so far.
At 11:20 a.m. Harper reported that 434 students had voted this morning. The polls are open until 5 p.m. today in Strong Hall. A total of 1,408 votes were cast yesterday.
"One or two times there were things that looked like campaigning, but as soon as I started to walk
over it dispersed and there were no problems" he said.
a stern stand taken with the Russians who have been supplying Red forces in Laos. The French wanted the communique phrased in soft terms. The British, backed by Australia, New Zealand and Pakistan, favored a middle ground.
Harper said the election had gone the weather cleared up, the total voted probably would not reach 3,000. Yesterday he said he had thought there was a chance the vote might go that high.
Secretary of State Dean Rusk was reported "highly pleased" with what finally came out of the conference, although the United States did not get all it wanted. He was described as believing that the meeting "very definitely strengthened the position of SEATO and the United States."
HE WARNED, however, that the United States would "meet the threat" of Communism in Asia. Observers said this indicated that if the Soviet Union rejects the ceasefire proposal, the United States, Thailand and the Philippines might be willing to take action on their own.
The resolution said SEATO favored an independent and sovereign Laos and was pleased with present efforts to secure a cessation of hostilities in the jungle kingdom. But it stressed that SEATO would not shirk its responsibility to protect those nations threatened by Red aggression.
THE RESOLUTION did not place a deadline for a Soviet response to a U.S.-supported British proposal for a cease-fire in Laos to be followed by a political statement. Britain submitted the proposal in Moscow Thursday.
Britain's Foreign Secretary Lord Home told newsmen that the eight nations were agreed that "all military operations must clearly stop" in Laos before there can be any further moves.
UN Faces Congo Costs
UNITED NATIONS, N. Y. — (UPI) — The Congo told the United Nations today that if the world organization cannot help it financially, the country "must knock at other doors."
Congolese Delegate Jean N'Sele told the General Assembly's Budgetary Committee hundreds of thousands of his countrymen are starving and U.N. funds are necessary immediately.
The 99-nation committee is debating the 1961 budget for the U. N. Congo operation. Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold requested $135 million for the year but his 18-nation advisory committee recommended $120 million. Costs for the first six months of the operation, last year, were $48.5 million.
"It is not my intention to accuse the United Nations of being the cause of our troubles, even though some member states have tried to confuse the situation," N'Sele said. "My delegation understands well the concern of members of good will to produce contributions commensurate with their means. . . .
"For eight months, hundreds of thousands of Congolese have been starving, with no bread and no work. This situation is extremely acute at present ..."
The assembly's main political committee also adjourned to give the African countries time to react with a resolution to U. S. Ambassador Adlai E. Stevenson's broad program for the economic development of the country.
Lynes Outlines Culture Fight
Russell Lynes...
Russell Lynes sketched in the details of this battle for his audience at the Humanities lecture last night in Fraser Theater.
Two opposing camps of cultural enthusiasts are battling over possession of American culture, both with the same essential end in mind, both using different approaches to the problem.
THE ANTI-MASS culturites oppose the very idea of a mass culture based on what they consider the degrading influence of commercialism and middle-class mediocrity, said Lynes.
He labeled the two groups the "anti-mass culturites" and the "neo- Pollyannas."
"An anti-mass culturist wouldn't have a television set in the house.
He feels that culture must be protected from the Philistines, from the middle-class devaluation."
He said the anti-mass cultureists favor entrusting the nation's culture to an intellectual elite whose concern is with quality rather than quantity. The anti-mass cultist is to be found most often on university faculties, within the broad area circumscribed by the liberal arts, and particularly among English and art faculty.
HE READ part of a letter from James Fenimore Cooper to Horatio Greenough, the sculptor, as an illustration of the attitude of the antimass culturist. It said:
"You are in a country in which every man swaggers and talks, knowledge or no knowledge, brains
or no brains, taste or no taste. They are all . . . connoisseurs, politicians, religionists, every man's equal and all men's betters."
Opposing the anti-mass culturists are the neo-Pollyannas, said Lynes. He said this group, while conceding that some of the things which now are said to promote a mass culture are little more than "cheap diversions," is optimistic about the development of a broadly based cultural heritage.
Still, he said, the group tends to extremes. He said it carries on a perennial "cultural love affair with Europe." He said it hopes some of the older culture will "rub off" on America. He said that when the neo-Pollyannas see a hole in the culture,
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